Truth

Things I'm Afraid To Tell You: Bloggers Post Their Naked Truths

Laura Rossi Totten | Posted 05.29.2012

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"Things I'm Afraid To Tell You" is exactly what it sounds like: bloggers posting real, sometimes raw, self-truths.

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Seek Your Own Truth

Aaron Anson | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Myths, Religious Beliefs, Truth, God, Spiritual Journey, Seeking God, Spiritual Development, Spiritual Path, Faith, Belief, Spirit, Religion News

We must seek those quiet spaces in our life that are safe for vulnerable explorations of meaning. These spaces are not found inside physical institutions or places where demagoguery slays reflective, rational and factually grounded discourse.

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The Dalai Lama Told Me So -- Words of Wisdom From the 2012 Templeton Prize Winner

Davia Temin | Posted 05.14.2012

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As I was listening to His Holiness, a question sprung full-blown to my mind: "Can, and if so, how, can those who have lost their compassion, or never had it to begin with, regain it?

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Seeking Truth In A World Of Competing Narratives

William Grassie | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Hermeneutics, Conflict, Big History, Gadamer, Narratives, Religion and Science, Jürgen Habermas, Interpretation, Truth, Ideology, Interfaith, Ricoeur, Religion News

Is there some other way to adjudicate between the competing metanarratives that shape our lives and identities, determining how we think and act, what we hold to be true and good?

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Expressing How We Truly Feel Is Not Easy, But It's Worth It

Jeanette Cajide | Posted 04.24.2012

I have no problem expressing discontent, criticism, and opinions, but when it comes to expressing love, I will suffer quietly, in the corner, hoping the other person is gifted with telepathy.

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What Divorce Taught Me About Being A Man

Steven Crandell | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Being a Man, Men, Parenting, Relationships, Love, Truth, Separation, Divorce News

Separation meant that many of my life plans became redundant. I felt I had to start from scratch in many ways

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Get Addicted... To Forgiving Yourself

Anne Naylor | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Forgiving, Forgiveness, Emotional Health, Freedom, Vulnerability, Truth, Forgiving Yourself, Forgiveness and Health, Forgiveness Health, Forgiveness and Acceptance, Mindfulness, Forgive, Forgiving Others, Healthy Living News

To open your heart and honestly express your mistakes, fears or doubts seems counterintuitive. And yet, when you do so, you touch and awaken other hearts to do the same.

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LiePad: Why Nonfiction Writers Must Never Change the Facts

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.21.2012

Can a writer working in the realm of nonfiction ever change the facts because he's Making Art or Delivering an Important Message? The view of basically every respected journalist is Hell No. But a new book takes the opposite view.

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True Friendship Can Handle the Truth

Nancy Colier | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Well-Being, Health, Honesty, Friendship, Love, Spirituality, Wellness, Truth, Mindful, Foxhole, True Friendship, Loyalty, Buddy, Compassion, Real, Happiness, Conscious Relationships, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

True friendship is about meeting in the place of truth, and loving and supporting each other there. Anything else is just a paler shade of polite.

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Is Truth in Politics Possible? Is Truth Possible in Anything Human?

Ian I. Mitroff | Posted 04.29.2012

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With so much deception, if not outright falsehoods and deceit, offered up daily by the current and recent crop of Republican candidates, one has ample...

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The Meaning Of True Strength

Nancy Colier | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Parent, Emotion, Child, Strength, Parenting, Warrior, Sadness, Presence, Truth, Mindful, Joy, Emotional Wellness, Sadness Love, The Sorrow, Sadness and Sorrow, Sorrow, No More Sorrow, Healthy Living News

To be strong is not to outrun sadness, but rather to learn to embrace it when it is here, to take good care of it so that it can heal. This is a warrior's strength, a wise parent's strength.

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One Thing to Know If You Want to Improve Your Communication Skills

Donna Flagg | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Communication Skills, Business, Difficult Conversations, Honesty, Truth, Communication, Skills in Communication, Improve Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Effective Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

If you think about it, at its core, communication is an exercise in understanding one another better. That's all. This is positive, not negative, despite the industry's tendency to want to turn "difficult conversations," into big, bad, dreaded events. But they don't have to be.

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What Happened to Congolese General Laurent Nkunda?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Hague Laurent Nkunda, History, Fdlr, Icc, Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Genocide, Massacre, Joseph Kabila, Media, Kiwanja, China, Congo, Truth, Rwanda, Tutsi, Hutu, Paul Kagame, Congo Walikale, Foreign Affairs, Video, World News

Why is the U.S. propping up the regime of Rwanda's Paul Kagame as it continues to trample on the free speech of those opposing his rule? Look no further than the new state of the art embassy in Kigali.

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The News About the Truth, and the Truth About the News

Dave Saldana | Posted 03.18.2012

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Let January 12, 2012, be marked as the date when the New York Times confessed, in an oblique but nonetheless conclusive way, that it theretofore had not been terribly concerned with discerning and reporting the truth.

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Telling the Truth About What Is Here

Gangaji | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Awareness, Attention, Spirituality, Discovery, Presence, Truth, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

One of the most powerful phrases in human language is "I am here." It is powerful because it is utterly simple and profoundly true. Anything that is said or thought afterward is just an addition to this basic, unfaltering truth.

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When Giving Friends Advice, How Honest Should You Be?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.05.2012

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"My experience is that people don't really want authenticity but think they do --- until it gets hard and difficult scenarios come up."

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Why Faith Claims Should Be 'Corrected': A Professor's Argument

Paul Pardi | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Faith and Science, Religion, Education, Knowledge, Atheism, Pedagogy, Skepticism, Faith, Truth, Religion and Science, Religion in the Classroom, Religion News

What role should faith play, if any, in the way we think about the conversation in the classroom or an ordered society? According to one professor, it should be relegated to personal preference.

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Life Coach Gabrielle Bernstein On Living Your Truth

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Self-Improvement, Gabrielle Bernstein, Video, Tedxwomen, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Truth, Healthy Living News

At last week's TEDxWomen conference in conjunction with New York's Paley Center for Media, author and life coach Gabrielle Bernstein spoke on moving f...

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Truth Telling: Getting To The Heart Of The Matter

Amy Elias, MS | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Truth Telling, Douglas Brooks, Say the Truth, Dr. Emoto, John Friend, Truth-Telling, Tell the Truth, Telling the Truth, Truth, Healthy Living News

What words are you using to weave your day, your life, second by second? Are they words that create beauty, peace and harmony? Are they offered to support or to suppress? Are they loving and kind?

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Do You Unmask the Tooth Fairy?

Dr. G | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Games, Tooth Fairy, Children, Kids, Honesty, Parenting, Telling the Truth, Truth, Parents News

The Tooth Fairy is a game and you owe it to your kid to say, "This is a game." I know that some parents feel that would crush the beautiful, innocent soul of their believer. I say two things.

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What Keeps Us From Truly Effective Interfaith Dialogue?

Rabbi Ted Falcon | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Interfaith, Interfaith Dialogue, Peace, Truth, Religious Tolerance, Does Interfaith Dialogue Work, Effective Interfaith Dialogue, Interreligious Dialogue, Religion News

We have shared many issues in our work together, and perhaps the most basic is simply: What keeps us from an authentic interfaith dialogue that can help us meet our shared economic, social, and environmental issues together?

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The Answer Within: Anyone in There?

Judith Acosta | Posted 01.28.2012

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In our modern age, we've all been told that to find the real answers, we need to look "within." But are there always answers within? Indeed, are there any there for any of us? And if there are, do we really want to hear them?

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Questions Can Set The Truth Free

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Neuroscience and Religion, Truth, Religious Debate, American Academy of Religion, Religion and Science, Faith and Doubt, Religious Doubt, Questioning Religion, Religious Inquiry, Seeking Truth, Religion News

When it comes to the discussion of religion -- or, for my theological colleagues, the discussion of doctrine -- no questions should be pulled off the table. We need questions to keep us honest.

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The Fraud of Authentic Leadership

Elise Lelon | Posted 01.09.2012

Leaders who describe themselves as "authentic" are like sentences that start with, "To be honest." Whenever big cheeses proclaim "authentic leadership" as their effective guiding principle, chances are they're not so authentic, and they may not be effective or principled either.

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Truth, Reconciliation And Financial Markets

Marian Gibbon | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Religion-and-Money, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Religion and Finance, Banks, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Truth Reconciliation Banking, Forgiveness, Truth, Reconciliation, Occupy Wall Street, Religion News

Publicly and privately, our conversations about the financial crisis have been, and continue to be, infused with sharp anger. To expect that ongoing anger to take no toll on our nation's spirit is naive.

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